August 2005
Beginner
464 pages
12h 36m
English
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Tag Your MP3 Files
Make sure your filename and ID3 tags are formatted properly for your listeners.
MP3 files have internal tags that store information about the title of the song, the artist, the name of the band, the genre, and more. These are called ID3 tags. Programs such as iTunes rely on these ID3 tags to navigate and categorize your music library. Ensuring that your ID3 tags are formatted properly makes life easier for your listeners, and it is simple to do.
Here are the fields that are relevant to podcasters and what those fields should contain:
- Title
This should contain the name of the show, and its date in short form (mm/dd/yy) or its episode number.
- Album
Put the name of your podcast here.
- Artist
Put your name here.
- Year
This is the year the podcast was first released.
- Track
This is the episode number of the podcast, if you release by episodes.
- Genre
Set this to be “Podcast.” Or if you can’t, just choose “Other.”
- Comments
This item is free-form. I recommend the URL of the blog entry for this podcast, or the home page for the podcast. You should also include information about how the listener can comment on the show—either an email address or a phone number [Hack #62] .
Now that you know what the ID3 tags should contain, how do you go about setting the values? The following applications [Hack #18] allow you to set the ID3 tags of MP3 files:
- iTunes
iTunes has an excellent built-in ID3 tag editor. If you store your pod-casts in iTunes before uploading, you can use the Get Info dialog and ...
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.